In Colorado, Rain Barrels Are Illegal......What????

[EweSheep]

If everyone got a rain barrel or two to water our garden, and showers and toliets (not drinking water unless you got the system set up for it), how MUCH of an effect would it be to the government owning water??????? I dont see how it can put so much of an dent in the water supply. Many of our water came from wells or water towers that are pumped into the ground many feet down.

Its another thing that the government wants to tax on to get MORE tax money from us. I am afraid we will be taxed on for the air we breathe and to clean up the factories that polluted the air.

It sucks!

 

[DuckyBoys]

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If we use that criteria, Las Vegas should not exist AT ALL. Yet, it grows bigger and more elaborate by the day. All for the sake of 'vacationing.'

Yeah, there is something really wrong with that...Southern California is the same way.

 

[warmfuzzies]

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If we use that criteria, Las Vegas should not exist AT ALL. Yet, it grows bigger and more elaborate by the day. All for the sake of 'vacationing.'

Yeah, there is something really wrong with that...Southern California is the same way.

Well, I think it applies to any city. Especially when they are trying to take that water away from the farmers and ranchers so they can take showers every day and have green grass in front of their homes.

We all have to eat, and it has to come from somewhere!

 

[luvarabhorses]

I'm glad I haven't reached the point of "conspiracy theory" as the people on this post.
Isn't it the STATE of Colorado that has banned water barrels? And who does that benefit? Not the little guy for sure.
I left a state that was close to the Delaware River. Because of toxic levels of mercury, cadmium, etc.. dumped in the water by big corporations, health officials advise strongly advise not eating more than one fish per year out of the Delaware River.
The EPA is evil?? Where I lived in Maryland I was surrounded by superfund sites and toxic waste dumps, everyone has a job (or used to) but everyone is dying of cancer.
The problems I see in my area now in Arkansas are people building houses right on the pristine clean rivers and sending their raw sewage right into it.
I think y'all need to look into why the rain barrel issue has come about and not blame the EPA or the government right away. It is most likely because the big money talking heads of your state feel they need it more than you do.
I have rain barrels all over the place btw.

 

[Cetawin]

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disgusting isn't it? Well when donkeys fly of their own power, when a politician speaks the truth, when my ex-husband actually becomes a man, when they give us a reasonable cure for cancer and when I weigh 150 lbs and NOT be pregnant to do it....then they can talk to me about it. Until then..it is my property and I do as I wish with it.

 

[Dar]

I really find it fascinating the differences between state to state, and Country to Country...

My local government sells the rain barrels at the local waste depot (they cost you an arm and a leg tho)

out water levels are at the highest i have seen in years...some of our local hiking trails have been wiped out because they are under water

 

[Fruit Juice]

I want to get a rain barrel for my yard, and I know it's illegal, but Ive seen houses that have them so, you know, what the heck, why not get one? Other people do and the haven't gotten in trouble yet...
And in the paper it says 3 dogs per house and I saw a man walking 7!

 

[JennsPeeps]

There was an interesting series of articles about this very issue in my hometown newspaper last summer/fall.

"Newfound frugality leads to that free water from the sky" http://www.thenewstribune.com/business/story/467481.html
"Hand off the rain - it's state property" http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/story/422059.html
"State doesn't own water but does manage it" http://www.thenewstribune.com/opinion/letters/story/432461.html

 

[foweler]

We have the California Water Project here. Water is captured by Govt. built reservoirs and is released by said reservoirs according to a plan that baffles many of us.

The goals as outlined are to provide for farming in the north, central regions, provide storage to assist in what the Colorado river supplies for supply to the LA basin and to insure an outward flow through the San Joaquin delta thus stemming the inflow of seawater that would destroy the freshwater aqua life.

Our lakes in N. Ca have been drained in the last 2 years and while a lucky bout of late season storms has granted us a temporary reprieve, we should see a massive drain down this year as well.

An easy answer is in sight. Desalinization at the end of the aqueduct: LA

Main problem: uses too much energy.
Answer : park a dedicated nuclear plant right next to it. Safe nuclear power has been in use all over the world for many years. We sold the technology to people who improved and implemented it and are doing fine. A usefull byproduct of nuclear power is cheap hydrogen that could power fuel cells for vehicles and industry. Here in Chico our main exporter, Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, has been using a combination of solar power and hydrogen feul cells to provide almost ALL of their power for a couple of years.

Its a win win except for the fact that environmental groups have effectively turned "nuclear" into a buzzword that brings up an absolutely will not negotiate mentality into anyone afflicted by their indoctrinations. I'm most certainly not anti-environment..... I'm just willing to listen to ALL of the facts and I think a good short term solution to both water and energy problems could be found in modern nuclear power. And yes, you can build in my backyard, the chickens won't mind.

But then, on the path to the complete control of humanity's every willful movement, energy and water are key and as long as so many people are willing to make it so easy......


Communism isn't where we are headed. Totalitarianism is a much better word.

Scarcity of resources is an excellent means of pushing public opinion in a direction that certain groups may desire.....until it blows up in their collective face.

Its interesting to watch people harvest what they've sown sometimes.

Everybody's been chanting the mantra of "conserve...conserve...conserve" but when it comes to the eventual outcome... which is always "the people are not capable of implementing the necessary conservation policies on their own and must be guided by a mentoring hand" then the complaints start rolling in.

I would say "next time vote for freedom" but that would be a farce. It wouldn't have made a difference. What I should say is "prepare for revolution" but that wouldn't work any better than voting. Nobody has the true goal in sight. Freedom!

All anyone seems to want is to make their own opinions law for all.

We deserve this! We have sown this crop for decades and its almost ready for harvest.

 

[beak]

So the next question is How many people have been prosecuted for having a few rain barrels on their property in Colorado? If you look at any states laws they have a lot of ridiculous laws. What matters is if they prosecute on them.